Fifteen miles west of Rochester, Minnesota, a town, Kasson, of about 6,000 people sits on Highway 14. Kasson is a bedroom community, a suburb of Rochester, and a place where there isn't much going on in the city, but it is known for its school and its sports, especially wrestling. The whole city has always been about the school, which for everyone is the basis for the burning issue of saving the old Kasson school. There are two main players in this debacle: the mayor, Tim Tjosaas, with the city council, and a group of concerned citizens called KARE or Kasson Alliance for REstoration. They don't always place nicely, more like a cat and mouse game using legal tactics, such as lawsuits for stalling techniques. I agree with KARE's position and think the solution to keeping the old school standing is to fix up the building, rent space for the library and other community functions, and use the money to maintain the building and pay for renovations. renovation. In 1918, Kasson Public School was built to accommodate classes from kindergarten through twelfth grade, featuring one of the first gymnasiums ever built in a school. It served as Kasson's only school until 1958, when Kasson and Mantorville merged and it became Kasson-Mantorville Elementary School. It was used that way until the current elementary school was built, and it became the community's educational building, hosting fun activities and lessons, like the speech classes I took there, and my older brother and sister went to the elementary school in this building. It was used until 2005, when the city closed the old school and a new community school was built. That's when the legal battles began because the city of Kasson now owned the building and no one knew exactly how to use it. Kasson called a referendum to raise taxes to pay for the $3.9 million the renovation of the